Raising up prophets, By Corey Russell

hey man go ahead and clap go ahead and go go I'm so glad to be with you again my name is Cory Russell and me and my family have been a part of the House of Prayer on staff for seven years we just celebrated seven years we're both originally from Northwest Arkansas NER Kansans here come on come on yeah we went ahead and got the had to pay all the prices to get over here get off the boat and got over here we're so excited to be here first time we got here I had more of a Hickock's voice and I'd got up and I introduced myself back then it was about fifty people on staff and I get up and introduce myself and I go hi my name is Cory and this is my wife Dana and and Mike goes in and you're from London is that where you're from I go no I'm from Arkansas and I'm glad to be from Arkansas in for the last seven years I graduated from college and in 1997 found myself I grew up around the church and knowing the things of God but knowing about the things of God but I didn't know him deeply or intimately so I found myself at 13 years old and and in getting hit with the things that hit our generation the drugs the sex I didn't like rock and roll it was rap so it's drugs sex and rap that was the things for me and so I went down that route throughout my high school years I was a good athlete I made good grades and found myself just I was partying it up I go off to college it gets worse my parents come to see me after the end of my first year they go Cory come home and let us love on you for the less love on you and try to get you back into shape because they knew they prayed night and day for me and I came back home I got my first DWI back in my home and I couldn't afford to go back to the college that I was at so I had to go to the Community College of where I was living and by that time I jumped in and got a house with one of my best friends and he had been raised up in a god-fearing home family to love God and feared God and but once he hit the public school scene in ninth grade he just went crazy and rebellion I mean he was just lost his mind and just went crazy we're living together in our college years and starting to do the drugs that keep you up five and six days a week at a time and and as we were doing these drugs in about November of 96 in November of 96 we had come off one of these drug highs and my friend lost his mind I don't know if you've ever been out there but he went out there a little too far and came back and he wasn't the same and for the next four months he just took days on in and he'd just sit there and look at us like this he wouldn't say nothing he just said there look at you he lost his mind we felt sorry for him it went on and on and it culminated in February 1st 1997 it was my birthday I showed up at his house another day to hang out to be with him I pulled up into the driveway and he has five younger brothers and sisters out there in the parking lot he comes storming out of the house his hairs all whacked out his eyes are all big and he's running at me full speed and he's screaming Cory it's heaven or hell Cory it's heaven or hell make a decision right now just running at me full speed and I'm like oh my goodness I don't know what's going on he runs and runs gets right in my face screaming make a decision right now and I'm like I got to get out of here so I leave and it was known that he had come back to the Lord he had a powerful three-day deliverance his mom prayed him through and broke off every spirit prayed him through and brought him into deliverance praise God she's one of those old intercessors that always has a blanket honor always praying in the spirit and anoints everything with oil we got any of those intercessors around here praise God form we come in they're hot I want that she just start praying I known him with Oil Lord touch them touch them having oil on our pillows oil everywhere it worked but right when he gets saved and delivered I get angry I mean of all the things you're going to do with your life why would you get saved what a boring existence I mean everybody knows that you enjoy Tuesday nights it calms more than you do the presence of the Lord everybody knows that everybody knows that you're just trying to be like a good neighbor but inside there's things that are grabbing your attention and grabbing your affection at a far deeper level so I'm angry two weeks later he shows up at college and he says let me take you to let me take you to lunch and share with you everything that was going on with me for those four months and so he takes me to lunch and he begins to unpack to me saying Cory I want to tell you the truth for those four months the whole spirit realm was opened up to me I was seeing angels I was seeing demons I was seeing things that were controlling people and I could see that you were being controlled by real spirits that you don't know about he says and it culminated on the very last night we had been shut up in a little party room partying it up for about three or four days and the voice of the Lord broke in the middle of the party now his mom about a week ago is at a conference and she knew she had prayed through but it was a week from that time and we're sitting in a room in the voice of the Lord breaks in the middle of this party and the Lord speaks to Zach and says this Satan is raising up an army but I'm raising up an army too and I'm going to call you out tonight and I want you to go call your friends out the voice of the Lord breaks in he's telling me this and he looks at me in the face and he says Cory I want you to give your life to the Lord right now now by this time I had two DWIs my license was gone for 16 months and I looked him right in the face and I said shut up and take me back to school that's what I said I said take me back to school so he says fine he takes me back to school and he pulls into the College parking lot I was still in college at the time and right before I get out of the van in the parking lot the Spirit of the Lord I didn't know it was the Lord at the time but the Spirit of the Lord filled the van and I immediately go shaking violently like a seizure I watched the pores of my skin begin to flow his sweat and I watched a blue shirt immediately turned right into sweat and I'm just going crazy in this van and everybody asked me well so what are you thinking when you're in a van and you're shaking violently I knew what I was thinking I began to be in touch that there was an unseen battle over my soul I knew that there was a a battle that was going on over my life and I knew it was going on he pulls in the back of the parking lot I'm just going ballistic and he begins to pray and pray and pray after a little bit he goes in the name of Jesus I bind the Antichrist spirit he just went right forward he bound the Antichrist spirit and right when he did it was like the spirit manifested and I couldn't breathe hello and now I'm like let's get Jesus involved amen let's get Jesus involved I could not breathe literally and I go to say the name Jesus I go to say his name and I went jeez jeez jeez Zacks in my ears scream and say it James I'm trying I'm trying trying I can't get it out it seemed like forever probably just a minute of trying to say the name Jesus and the spirit would not let me say his name till finally about a minute or two into it I just stopped and I and I was in the van everything's going crazy and I just declare it I went Jesus like that the hole just broke right off of me and just like someone came and breathed into my mouth Zack jumped out of the van dancing you know giving glory to God you know doing it seven times around the van Jericho just failed I'm sitting there and I it's like someone came and literally breathed in my mouth for a second I kept saying I've got air I've got air I've got air I got air and after a second I heard a voice coming online saying now get down on your face and give me your life you're mine that's what the Lord says get down on your face give me your life you're mine so I'm in the middle of a college parking lot kids running everywhere and I'm out in the middle of this parking lot screaming Jesus I give you my life of yours you can get delivered all kinds of crazy stuff going on and I'm going to tell you and I stand as a witness here ten years later that on February 18 1997 in one role with the presence of God the power of addiction was broken in a moment the power I'm telling you right now we were sticking needles in our veins we would smoke a bag a day we would drink a case a day we did God knows what every day we threw away our sexuality throughout our teenage years and in one touch with the presence of God the power of the devil was broken off my life that's powerful but what's even more powerful is that within a month I had a little drug friend a drug ring of friends that had encounters like that one are bigger and they're explosions we begin to see a small town in Northwest Arkansas high school of 400 and over the next six months we saw a 100 to 150 kids it's saved healed and delivered God broke in I'm telling you right now praise God me and my wife my wife was in another college and she was hearing about what had happened to Zach and to hear what happened to Zach is like the worst person in the world getting saved so she calls him up saying what's going on and he begins to preach his evangelism technique it's heaven or hell Dana it's heaven or hell so she falls down in a parking lot gives her life to the Lord hey two out of two and we we knew that in that season those first six months my my thing was as I understood that get a hold of this right here and this is what ties into why I'm standing before you today is that I understood and what I was experiencing in the move of God was the result of prayers intercession fasting holiness crying out to God for a move of God that preceded me years even decades before what I was encountering that what I was experiencing was the result of years and decades of prayer and fasting and calling on the promises of God little did we know that there was a young high girl a little sophomore girl that no one knew and she heard a friend would take one lunch a week and they pray for the two worst of the city it was me and my buddy and they prayed every week they took one lunch a week and they promised and they cried out to God for the worst ones and God heard their cries we got saved in revival we got a move of God and I got around those old intercessors I go here grandma give me the oil put it put a put a blanket on me and let's learn how to pray so that's how I cut my teeth and after two years of that we knew by the Lord that we were to move up here and it was two days after graduating from college I took my degree and I said that qualifies me to go be an intercessory missionary so we moved up here my wife has been singing and doing things and we've been a part of this thing and I want to tell you right now the Lord is doing something in the earth amen amen do you believe it you are in this room because God is doing something in the earth I want to tell you right now that prayer we were singing it you can even open your Bibles real quickly to Ephesians one giving ourselves for the last seven years why did I do it why did I move here why did I give myself to a place of prayer and fasting because I understood from Bible from the Bible and from modern history that the only ones that that are that are given the grace to speak from God they merge listen to me hear they merge from years of hiddenness years of silence and years of the word of the Lord going deep and prevailing over them and therefore qualifying them to proclaim prevail of our generation and I understood that the true call of a messenger rucola the prophetic voice was going to require years of never seeing a person are never getting them are never hearing all about that I'm telling you right now God is raising up a generation and he's calling them to the wilderness he's calling them to the wilderness of Prayer of fasting of weakness of giving of radically showing their life into the ground so that it would produce much grain in the years to come I believe we're in the midst of a transition right now to where we've seen many many people shooting up quickly because of gifting or anointing or personality or the right connections or the right networks that they have and we see them shoot up like a shooting star just to come back down so quickly and I'm telling you that God is calling a generation back to the Apostolic foundations of prayer fasting D it a digestion of the word of taking in the Word of God until it becomes alive in a vessel and to wear it when you speak angels move and Devils move when you see it's known in heaven and in hell and that's what the whole purpose of this of this session is today is I'm calling forth prophets I want to say it under unashamedly it's an hour of calling forth the prophets sons and daughters that would prophesy I'm not talking about more prophetic conferences to where we're saying where you have boats and coats coming to you this year or this is the new year for you I'm talking about biblical prophets I'm talking about I'm talking about a prophetic generation that moves in the same anointing that was upon Jeremiah that was upon Ezekiel that was upon Daniel that was upon Isaiah that was upon John the Baptist we are about to witness a great release a great call and commissioning of a whole generation that's going to come out of seemingly nowhere and guns gonna put them at the forefront in a second maybe for one encounter maybe for one time but God is going to train them and hiddenness to reemerge with the word of the Lord and their generation hey man I'm talking about preachers I'm talking about singers I'm talking about intercessors I'm talking about musicians I'm talking about housewives I'm talking about Marcus pleasure people I'm talking about a prophetic anointing coming out and when they speak there's the witness from heaven I believe the most important prayer that you and I can begin to pray in this hour is found in Ephesians 1 16 through 19 I believe that the Apostles prayer for the Ephesian Church is the most important prayer we can pray I want to say it boldly because it's much more than just a prayer it's a round it's a reality it's a place of encountering the knowledge of God at levels that we've never seen before Paul prays this prayer he says that the father of glory everybody say father glory he asked he's not just I really want you to walk through this because when he says father of glory I want you to know that he's caught up into that revelation 4 throne room of God the God who shines like Jasper the God who burns like sardius and emerald rainbow surrounding his throne James calls in the father of lights Hebrews calls him the father of spirits Psalms 104 says that God wraps himself with light as with a garment that God's clothes are not Abercrombie & Fitch but is called lights God clothes himself with lights that's what God puts himself in shields himself first Timothy says that he is the god of approachable life the God who dwells and unapproachable beauty and glory and radiance and excellence this is your father when the disciples asked Jesus they go teachers how to pray Jesus says I want to teach a generation how to party that I want to connect you with something that who you're talking to is more important than what you're asking so he takes them to heaven and he says this our Father in Heaven hallowed be thy name he takes them to heaven he equates them with the throne life he equates them with the throne power the Lightning's and the thunderings and the voices he acquaints them to the realities that are surrounding the throne of God and he says let me connect you to the realm of Revelation let me give you I Sal let me give you sight let me give you hearing and from there I want you to live and when Paul says the father of glory this is what's in his mind he's approaching the father of glory and he says that I'm asking that the father of glory would give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him I'm telling you right now guys this is the most important prayer we can pray because Paul is asking for the Ephesian Church for more than a good quiet time he's asking for more than a good Bible study he's asking for more than just a little bit more livelier life he is asking for the Ephesian Church that they would be caught up into the realm of the Holy Spirit that they would be caught up into the throne life and into the throne realm and to where they begin to see the sights of heaven they begin to hear the sounds of heaven and they get acquainted with the realm of heaven we're such in a search right now for what is true relevance I want to tell you right now true relevance the only way that you are going to be relevant to this generation is by you getting detached from this generation and getting connected to the realm of heaven do you believe this Boston's three says if you've been raised with Christ get up there that's what he says if you have been raised with Christ and your citizenship is in heaven then get acquainted with the realm of heaven and Paul is asking for that realm to break in upon us he's asking for that spirit of wisdom and revelation to begin to envelop us and begin to burn on us and begin to catch us up to where God's face is the brightest God's voice is the loudest and God's Bernese are the burnings of your heart it's where God is all to God is all in all and God wants to catch us up I want to say this is not a far away reality this is reality oh this is what we're asking men he continues and he says that the eyes everybody say eyes he says that the eyes of your understanding would be enlightened that you would know what is the hope of his calling the glorious riches of his inheritance in the Saints and the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe do you want to know what my paraphrase is of this verse it's a it's an easy one you don't even have to take notes on it just three words and I believe that this needs to begin to be the prophetic intercessory cry of a generation I'm talking about this needs to become the language of your prayer life five times a day five to ten times a day are you ready here it is this is what I pray all the time I say God wake me Oh God wake me up God wake me up I pray that prayer five to ten times a day because I want to tell you something generation we are fast asleep and we don't know it I'm talking about believers I'm talking about people in the pews people that confess Jesus and that talk about Jesus and that dance around Jesus and know all the Buffs words and no although all the things and all the whole idea in the whole of hoopla Christianity but it's so far from the spirit of Revelation operating in their life that they're fast asleep and you don't want to know what the doling thing that is doling this generation asleep you know what it is it's called the spirit of religion now listen to me here the spirit religion isn't that while I dance more than that church does down the road they got the spirit of religion on that's not the sprit of religion if you want a good definition for the spirit of religion here it is the spirit of religion settles us into thinking that we know something about God when in reality we don't know anything about God the spirit of religion settles us into a false complacency thinking that we have all of these things figured out and I want to tell you when the spirit of Revelation is operating in a person's life they realize that they are at the beginning of the beginning of the beginning of the beginning of the beginning of the beginning of a shortest ocean that has yet to be expounded upon the Apostle Paul in his latter year says I have not apprehended I have not gotten there I've seen a broad ocean and I have a gun and I want to tell you right now the spirit of religion is choking the life from the church it's because it's settling us into false complacency and we need to go after God waking us up into what reality is wake me up God and I want to tell you you do you want to know the number one reason why we're in the fight for getting waken up in this hour you want to know what the big fight forgetting waking up he prayed this that the eyes again everybody say eyes say it again say it again he says this I am contending Paul is contending for the Church of Ephesus and he says I am content ding for the eyes of your spirits that they would be enlightened and that you would begin to move forward into that realm of Revelation I want to tell you right now and this is what I have been hammering on hammering on in my own life and as I go I want to tell you right now it's time to sound the alarm and to begin to wage a warfare to begin to wage out an all-out assault on the battle for the eyes of a generation I got three right up here I'm going to tell you right now we are in the battle for our life and it's with our eyes Jesus says if your eyes are good your whole body is good Jesus says that the eyes are the window to the soul that whatever you take in through your eyes it creates images in your mind and your life follows the images that are created in your mind and I want to tell you right now the eyes are continuing because I'm speaking to a prophetic generation in this room right now I'm talking about God is raising up seer prophets and the enemy knows more about your destiny than you do the enemy knows more about your destiny and about your call to see into the realm of heaven more than you do therefore an all-out assault has been released against our generation to do what to shut our eyes down to get us to settle for paltry portions of drinking from the scraps from the table and eating from the scraps to the table and the whole whale missing out on the true pleasures of seeing and hearing the things of heaven we're all out contending and I and I say it's time to sound the alarm for this generation it's because I'm telling you the enemy has had his way with pornography I'm telling you right now pornography is raping a generation pornography is raping the eyes of a prophetic generation in the pews I'm not even talking out there well we'll talk about the laws another day today we need a great evangelization in the church we need a great movement in the church to where our eyes and we begin to understand that what we take in through our eyes affects our spiritual capacities and our spiritual capabilities to be able to relate with the realm of heaven that they're directly connected and I'm telling you that God has that there's an all-out contending it says in Revelation - at the spirit of Jezebel that Jezebel is at work and it's going after the prophets it's going after the young men and the young women and this is what the sprit of Jezebel is doing it's teaching servants to tolerate it's teaching servants to tolerate and to give in to the seductions of immorality or in my way it's this way the spirit of Jezebel waters down the power of a perversion on the human spirit that's what it does and this thing is alive in our generation and I want to see a generation because I'm not saying we don't do pornography we've got to have more I'm saying more than don't look at pornography I'm saying get connected to the spirit of Revelation get into that see around to where your eyes begin to behold Beauty tore your ears begin to hear the sounds of heaven that Isaiah 50 that God would awaken are eager to hear as the learning that God would awaken our ears and awaken our eyes that we would begin to come out of the lesser pleasures of this world and begin to taste of real pleasures will you say well it's not pornography for me brother praise God no you're just so stuffed on 25 PG movies a week that you have no real room for real spiritual capacity nor encounter in your own life I want to tell you just as deadly as pornography is the 25 PG movies is the secret toleration is the little colorations throughout adults fee in the movies that we see throughout the little issue that we see in our life and I'm telling you right now that the Lord wants to begin to unmask this thing and begin to get a generation that says I was made to see God I was made to hear God I was made to live before him unveiled seeing his beautiful face I speak that revelation 20:2 passage over my life many times guys there's coming a day where we will see his face and his name will be on our foreheads get a vision for revelation 22 in your life we're calling a holiness movement not based out of well it's not the thing to do guys we've got to have more power than saying don't do something I'm telling you to do something fight for your inheritance to see God contend for your inheritance to have an awakened ear and to move out of dullness and to move into revelation move out of dullness and move into sight it's time we fight for the eyes amen we need it it's time that we set an all-out war on this reality and try to wake us up turn me real quickly to Jeremiah 1 because I'm convinced that the profits that the Lord is raising up are today struggling in areas of immorality and perversion they're struggling they're fighting they know they're made for something so much more but it's like two steps forward and one step back they've done a hundred altar calls just to find themselves moving back into the place that they were at before and the demons of shame and the demons of guilt and the demons of condemnation shut their eyes and shut their mouths but I'm here to tell you that God has known you from before you were in your mother's womb and he's preordained you he's known you and I'm going to tell you right now you're not fighting this thing alone you have an intercessor at the right hand of God who forever lives to make intercession for you it says Jesus Christ forever lives to make intercession for you the Holy Spirit is making intercession for you the spirit within you is making intercession for you I want to tell you and all the Saints through all the ages are contending for the generation to complete that which they saw in the beginning it says in Hebrews 11 that it was not right that they will be made perfect outside of us I believe the Lord is raising up Jeremiah's in this hour a prophetic generation and he's calling a people he's calling young men and women like he did Jeremiah Jeremiah received the word of the Lord in the 13th year of Josiah's reign in real short Jeremiah begins to receive the word of the Lord in the midst of an hour in Jerusalem to where the money is pretty good spiritual activity is pretty good there is a reform and revival that's going on in the land and there is an overall sense that God is blessing us and God has good things prepared for us many many people he was in a revival kind of culture King Josiah turning his heart ripping his heart and going on massive reforms and many people were dancing around the revival language they were talking about the revival language and there were many prophets in the day who were declaring that these are times of good times these are peaceful times these are prosperous times and look at how much God loves you he would never do anything wrong to you only to find out that this young man Jeremiah receives the word of the Lord in the 13th year of Josiah's reign and he receives a message from the throne of God that is completely contrary to the popular message of the day I generated he begins to receive them an unpopular message from what all the other prophets because all the other prophets are saying good times are coming and Jeremiah says no good times are not coming because this is the problem we have lots of people who are professionals at lip service dancing around the fires of revival and dancing around the fires of radical Christianity they have they have turned into external reforms but their hearts are far from me so Jeremiah comes on the scene and the Lord says I want more than your externals I want your internals I want your heart look with me here Jeremiah 1 again I want to say it I believe the Lord is commissioning and calling young men and women this weekend and this is what he's saying over you in verse 5 he declares a threefold declaration over your life he assaults the great enemy of abortion right here by saying before I formed you in the womb I knew you he says before I formed you in your mother's womb I knew you you were deeply intimate to my heart that I have set you apart unto myself and that I've known you you're a dear to my heart and I've set up set you apart second thing he says like this he says before you were born I sanctified you I set you apart wholly for myself and the third thing I've ordained you a prophet to the nation's Jeremiah begins to contend with the Lord says God I can't speak crime untrained or I'm a youth I want to tell you right now that the Lord is raising up a generation that's going to be trained different than every other any other generation that we've seen before we are going to see the redefining of what education looks like in this generation and let me make it clear to each and every one of you in here there is a redefining of the wineskin of what training looks like in this hour and the redefining is the call to the priestly place of ministry to God and intercession with God he's redefining the whole thing he says Jeremiah I've known you before you're in your mother's womb I sanctified you and I bore danger and I want to declare that threefold proclamation over your lives today that before you were in your mother's womb he knew you he has set you apart for himself priestly ministry to minister first and foremost to him and out of the overflow of priestly ministry to him you will be ordained as a prophetic generation to the nation's and the great contention that Jeremiah has is the great contention we're walking through as God is redefining what training looks like and he's saying this I can't speak for I'm not as sound or is or I'm not I'm not able to speak like other people and the Lord says this I'm going to show you what my training looks like your training is about you becoming sensitive to the voice of the Lord it's about a generation that is weak that is learning how to acquire a hearing ear that is acquiring the ability to hear what God is saying to see what God is doing and to live out of the overflow of Revelation he says you will go to whom I command you I don't want you to turn away because your calling is to be obedient or another word to be sensitive to the voice of the Lord acquiring a hearing hardness our acquiring hearing heart continue with me he says in verse seven don't say I'm a youth for you're going to go to all I send you and whatever I command you you shall speak he says do not be afraid of their faces for I am with you to deliver you says the Lord then verse 9 then the Lord put forth his hand and he touched my mouth I am wanting to scatter the initial seeds this afternoon but I want to make it clear that we're living and we're moving into an hour I believe this with all my heart that we are going to see thousands a millions of lights of a white American of African American of Asian Chinese Korean Vietnamese we're going to see Thai we're going to see a mass release all throughout Europe we're going to see mass release of a prophetic generation and I'm telling you that we are embarking upon days to where God is literally going to encounter them and it's going to touch their mouth I want to make it clear to you right now that I am contending for ascending I am contending in my life for a real encounter with God that changes everything I want you to begin to get a vision for your life more than I wonder if I have the right thing I'm talking about a generation going into the wilderness of Pern fasting until God authorizes you and God sends you as a burning and a shining lamp into the midst of a crooked and a perverse generation so the Lord touched my mouth and he says this he says behold I put my words in your mouth see how this day set you over nations kingdoms to root out pull down destroy throw down to build in a plant and then in verse 11 he begins to ink age and invite Jeremiah into that revelatory realm he says Jeremiah what do you see what say Jeremiah he begins to invite Jeremiah into this place of seeing and Jeremiah goes I see the branch of an almond tree because you've seen well and the branch of an almond tree is the first tree to bud in the midst of spring and the name of that tree is literally called the awakening tree it's literally called the awakening tree and the Lord is declaring to Jeremiah saying this that the nature of your message is awakening the call of your message is to sound an alarm throughout all all nations all peoples tribes and tongues and to begin to sound an alarm of wakening that's what the Lord is releasing amen that's that spirit of Revelation because the Lord is going to release the cry in you wake me up and then as time begins to progress what's going to happen is it you are going to become a mouthpiece to be able to release and to wake whole generations and whole nations up to the reality of what God is doing in this hour he says I see the branch of an almond sure he goes good you've seen well Jeremiah he asked him the second thing in the second thing speaks about the content of his message he says I see what do you see he goes I see a boiling pot facing away from the north and the Lord begins to speak to Jeremiah he says this the Lord says I out of the north calamity shall break forth on all the inhabitants of the land for behold I am calling all the families of the kingdoms of the north says the Lord they shall come and each one set up his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem against all its walls all around and against all the cities of Judah and I will utter my judgments the first thing that he saw was the nature of his message the second thing that he saw was the content of his message and I've said everything that I've said to say what I'm saying right now the Lord is awakening a young generation young and it doesn't matter but it's predominantly young he's raising up profits in this hour that are going to sound an alarm saying wake up hunt and the second thing that they're going to proclaim is this there is a military crisis that is going to break in upon this nation because in the same way that this young man stood up into Jerusalem stood up in the midst of a a prosperous time a good time a seemingly wonderful time and come rises up and speaks a completely unpopular and completely contrary message to all the popular messages of the day so the Lord is raising up prophets prophets prophets singers musicians men and women that are going to declare that there is a military crisis scheduled for this nation and in this generation unless the people of God in this nation begin to wake up and to begin to respond in the biblical way that the Lord calls people to respond in hours of crisis I want to tell you right now that we in this nation we are staring two giants in the face there are two twin towers in this nation and I want to declare to you the first one is abortion bloodshed is screaming from the ground 50 million babies in this nation crying out from the ground and in the same way that the Lord heard Abel's voice heard Abel's blood in the garden heard Abel's blood in the same way that he heard Abel's blood so Jesus is hearing the cries of 50 million aborted babies crying out for justice in this nation the Lord declared it in Genesis 9 for blood I will required blood we have blood set on this ground and I'm telling you guys we have made a God in our image we've made a God who pretty much fits our ideas and fits our comforts and fits our ideas of what a Christianity here in the West looks like but I'm telling you God is God and he doesn't change we have truly made a God in our image and it's time that we get connected to the God who made us in His image we have made one who has only thinkers altogether like us we have whittled him down made him so small in our minds we have made him so little and so weak and so incompetent of doing anything I want to declare to you that he is the same yesterday today and forever and if he's going to raise up a young man to strike the apple of his eye Jerusalem beloved I tell you right now if God is God then we have judgment awaiting us in this nation if God is gone abortion crying out from the ground and this second issue I want to tell you right now this issue of pornography we have a billion dollar pornography industry coming out of Los Angeles 50,000 pornographic films are shown and filmed every month 800 million DVDs are are bought every year we're seeing that the statistics of people nearing youth conferences like this one are young adult conferences we actually see that in the hotels the rates go up of pornographic rentals and I tell you the sons and the daughters are in prison the sons and the daughters who sit in the pews and then know all the Bible verses and then know all the songs and then know everything about him are dying in prisons of shame dying in of guilt dying in prisons of perversion of being tormented in the night I'm telling you right now it's time that we sound an all-out assault and begin to say God we bleed your blood over my sins in the sins of this nation God in abortion and send revival but Jesus I plead your blood over my eyes and the eyes of this nation God in pornography and sin revival to a generation telly puts a fight when we've tolerated Jezebel we have given into her seductions we see it on every radio station on every television station everything is infiltrated with sexual in the windows targeting to shut our spirits down and to keep us the Walking Dead and we don't hear what God is saying in this generation we don't even have the capabilities it's because we're so stuffed on so many good things we have no episod appetite for the best things the spirit of Revelation so what do we do Cory what is church look like an hour of crisis this is what we're going to hit on the call this is we're going to hit all weekend that's why we're here guys we are in a we are in a serious hour I don't know if you know that we are in a serious hour and we need a redefining of what church looks like in this hour business as usual will not cut it it will not cut it the way that we have done it will not cut it we have to get cut to our hearts get aware of how asleep we really are that's the gift of God to show us how asleep we truly are and then to begin to create an intercessory kind God wake me up throwing me quickly to Joel to I have found more warfare in my own life as I target this issue I am just asking god I don't want any toleration because why Cory why because pornography is bad yes that but there's something so much higher guys we need people that can hear and see in this hour we you were made to see God do you know that and do you understand that you have settled for something far less when worshiping a creature when you're made to worship God it's what Romans 1 says is that God gave them over why because they worship the creature instead of the Creator do you understand that pornography is a global worship movement do you understand that pornography is a global worship movement it's worshiping the creature and you were made to worship the creator you were made to get lost in the beauty of the Lord you were made to see and to hear and to encounter God like never before Joel is living in a similar generation to that Jeremiah is about a decade before him most scholars agree he comes on the scene and this is Joel sounds 2 alarms in Joel chapter 2 the first one verse 1 blow the trumpet in Zion sound and alarm in my holy mountain and let all the inhabitants of the land shrimp off the first alarm is to say everybody wake up and to begin to feel the way of what is coming around the corner because there is a Babel in Jeremiah's day and Joel's day there is a Babylonian army that is at your doorsteps and that is about to break in and take you into captivity and you need to awaken to what is around the corner and that's what I believe the Lord is saying this right now we are sounding alarm saying things are shifting in this nation amen we're seeing spiritual protection that's getting shaken to the core we're seeing spirit we're seeing walls getting broken through into this nation and we don't need just to see it well that's happening over there because of that wicked City beloved when we begin to see the breakdown of spiritual protection around this nation we know for sure that then something is happening and that we have turned away from God and that God is beginning to turn against us this is what Joel says he says sound the alarm verses 2 through 11 he begins to describe what the army looks like the military crisis that is coming and then verse 12 he says this now everybody say now say it again said again he says now which means that there needs to be an urgency that moves past us past are mere things and moves right into our hearts now says the Lord turned to me with all of your heart and do it with fasting because fasting cuts right through all the hoopla it cuts right through the religion it cuts right through all of your fancy-schmancy stuff and it gets right to the heart of the matter the Lord has given us the gift of fasting to cut to our hearts he's given us the gift of fasting to get right to the heart of the matter and to begin to deal with the areas that we are trying to prop up throughout the way that we eat and spend all of our time and money fasting cuts it away and it begins to remove the props that you're building your life upon I want to tell you that verse 12 he says do it with fasting tear your heart not your garments he goes I want your internals not your externals return to the Lord your God for this is it this is the declaration of his name he is gracious merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and he relents from doing harm who knows if he will turn and relent and leave a blessing behind him a grain offering and drink offering for the Lord your God he says this joke prophesizes says who knows that if the people of God hear the prophetic call and respond in the right way who knows that at the last second when judgments about to break in upon a generation there's the last second when the people of God are crying out mercy right when it's about to break in God goes abort abort abort and sends the judgment away and in its place pours out historic revival who knows who knows Allen hood my and you may share this his own self but I have been so gripped by this dream you all probably familiar we just did the 40-day we just did the 7707 in Nashville Tennessee and then we had a forty day fast preceding that and on the 33rd day of the fast Allen's caught up into a dream and he's caught up in this dream and he's over the Midwest and he said like a courtroom kind of setting and as Jesus is behind like a judge's bench and he's sitting there at the judges bench and Allen's excited and he comes up to to the Lord and says Allen he says Lord he says is it time now for the pouring out of revival now that we've done the forty day fast is now the time that you have set to release a revival in America and to save this nation is this the time and he's crying out to the Lord excited and he says he sees the Lord and the Lord gets grieved in his heart and he takes like a green notebook and he opens the green notebook and he and I don't know if he begin to weep but he going to be distressed and he looked back at Allen he says Allen he says what about the drunkenness in California what about the drunkenness in California and he began to weep and as soon as Allen begin to hear this from the Lord he began to cry out saying God have mercy on us God have mercy on California God have mercy on this nation because you got to understand yes--it's California the Lord is targeting that state but beloved that is a gateway into the whole nation God will you have mercy on us and it was so funny because he said as he was crying out mercy it was like it was like one of those meters you know where people clap and it guys getting louder and stuff like that on one side was murder on one side was judgement the other side was mercy and he says and as he began to cry out mercy mercy mercy God he says it was like the arrow was going further and further towards mercy it was like it was moving away from judgment it was actually moving towards mercy and he says that he was moving he's crying go go go and he says it right when it hit about the halfway point but he races up right out of his sleep he's awake and the Lord speaks to him this passage and says who knows Alan who knows the future in the end of the future of this nation in the future of the church in this nation is in the hands of the intercessors is in the hands of the people of Christ in this nation it's the who knows our which means this the Lord is saying who knows if the people of God will respond that's one who knows and the second who knows is who knows what kind of God and how good he is that in the place of judgment he releases a revival spirit beloved I am desperate for revival I am desperate for an outpouring of the Spirit that sweeps from coast to coast that goes from north to south that breaks that breaks into homosexual communities that breaks in to pornographic communities that breaks in and the power of God is released oh just thought I'd release that because I'm telling you I'm desperate for revival I'm not talking about a few meetings and a good conference and wow that was good music guys I'm talking about a tangible manifestos of his presence zones of glory that it pass a 50-mile radius to where there is a tangible manifest fear of the Lord on a geographic region herb or shut down her prostitution house is shut down we're back home shut down and know where the power and the fear of the Lord is released and the fame of Jesus is released that's what I'm after that's what I'm after who knows and the Lord points that to you who knows who knows as I read about the days of Finney 500,000 saved in eight weeks 500,000 saved in eight weeks the power of God striking people as they're coming in on the harbor on boats into New York I'm talking about tangible zones of glory I'm talking about the Hebrides islands to where they're walking to the police station and everyone has turned themselves in to the cops because they knew that everything that they have just done wrong was revealed to them there's a not make-believe there's not funny that's what happens when God shows up who knows I'm going to tell you what is the wise in that's going to be able to handle the outpouring of the spirit that we're believing for what is the one what is the thing that's going to be able to handle what God is wanting to release here it is verse 15 and I want to say it as bold as I can verse 15 through 17 is the prophetic word of the hour Joel 2 15 through 17 is the prophetic word of the hour blow the trumpet in Zion consecrate a fast call a sacred assembly gather the people sanctify the congregation assemble the elders gather the children in the nursing babes that the bridegroom go out from his chamber the bride from her dressing room and let the priests to minister to the Lord and let them say spare your people O Lord I believe that the prophetic word of the hour is it's time to shut down business as usual and truly become the house of prayer what do you mean by that Corey I'm saying it's a time to where we begin to have more prayer meetings in our churches than we do board meetings where we have more strategy meetings more networking meetings to where we begin to shut down because I'm telling you right now and an hour of crisis Joel is telling us Jeremiah said the same thing but joe says it's so clear this is what church looks like in an hour of crisis oh brother I don't know that we're in a crisis things are going pretty well exactly nope no prophetic voice that ever got released was popular nor did it run with the flow of the day they were always out of sync always out of step Noah for 120 years Jeremiah for 40 years Ezekiel and Babylonian captivity John the Baptist coming out of places guys I'm telling you it's happening verse 28 and I believe that this is what it looks like oh well where you're turning to that this is what it looks like I'm declaring that the new wineskin for what the Lord wants to release is this it's time to shut down business as usual and gather together and pray I want to say it right here that the Lord called his house a house of what what what I'm telling you right now he didn't call it a house of evangelism he didn't call it a house of feeding the poor he didn't call it a house of prophecy or healing he called it a House of Prayer which means this prayer is the central foundational place individually and corporately and out of that place the power and the kingdom of God breaks out I am desperate I know that my life's going to be poured out in the nation's but I'm here to say that we need a radical shift we need a radical shift we need a radical shift I'm just I'm crying out to God for the millions that are sitting in pews every week that are so far from the God given inheritance to live close to God to minister to him and to agree with what he wants to do I'm telling you it's time to free the prisoners in the pews and say it's time to step into your royal inheritance it's called a kingdom of priests for ever to are gone and God's raising up trumpets and says this is what it looks like this is what it looks like this is what it looks like a kingdom of priests and we shall reign on the earth this is how government looks then in verse 28 what does he say it shall come to pass when come on somebody win afterwards read your Bibles I said now earlier this is what he says everybody loves to quote Joel 2:28 yeah we want the outpouring of the Spirit but nobody wants the inner end to God's prescribed method that can handle what God wants to give us there is a certain place that can handle the outpouring of the Spirit and it's called gatherings of fasting and prayer and he says that afterward I'm going to pour out my spirit on all flesh that's what we're contending for amen that's what we're living for we're contending guys I believe that we are embarking upon a day to wear on all nations there is going to be an historic outpouring of the Holy Spirit outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the number one release I'm talking about stadiums being filled we've seen the vision to wear our prophetic a leadership here's seen the vision four years 30 years stadiums filled Peres leagues getting out of wheelchairs people onstage for three days with no food or clothing a food her forgive me we don't we you're listening i won didn't you don't be I've been praying all day revelation three been praying that the shame of my nakedness would be closed so that's where it came from laughs one more time here you go I knew that was it was there let it go stadiums field I'm telling you right now what's going to be the number one release of the outpouring of the Spirit is coming we are embarking upon a apostolic missions movement that is going to be shot into the heart of the nations of the earth an apostolic missions movement that's going to be shot into North Africa it's going to be shot throughout the Middle East it's going to be shot throughout Europe throughout Eastern Europe through Russia it's going to be shot throughout the Scandinavian countries throughout this nation through South America throughout the Caribbean that God is going to release an historic outpouring and profits are going to arise with clarity authority and power and they are going to bear witness to the light they are going to emerge as burning and shining lamps out of the wilderness of prayer and fasting and they are going to move in the spirit and the power of Elijah they are going to move and authority prophet sons and daughters that prophesy I'm not talking about more conferences I'm talking about Genesis 1 power restored to the Word of God I'm talking about creative power I'm talking about power that shuts the heavens to declare a judgment of God that opens the heavens to declare the mercy of God that prophesize and that releases the kingdom of God that's what I'm talking about and I believe that we are at the beginning of the beginning of this and I believe that some of those many of those it may you be shot out in a North Africa some of you may be housewives raising up children some of you may be factory workers some of you may be Anna's and simians who live your whole life in the temple I live in attention me and Alan we talk about this tension because I'm a Simeon I'm an Anna that's my first and foremost calling I want to live here all the days of my but at the same time my heart burns for the nation's and I want to see the Apostolic gospel release with power that shuts the mouths and that we see the power of God begin to convert the whole Muslim world before you were in your mother's womb I knew you sanctified you and I've ordained you as a prophet to the nation's before you were in your mother's womb I knew you I don't care if anybody else knows you God knows you deeply intimately he knows he knows your frame his thoughts are more towards you than the sands of the sea he knows you he sanctified you he has set you apart for himself and the third thing guys there is a commissioning that is coming and this is what you're going to sound everybody wake up it's time to gather together and prayer that's what this call event that we're going to have at the end of this conference is about do you understand that the call events today are a turning signal for what church is going to look like tomorrow amen amen let's stand

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